This Is The World's Violin, and It's Playing Just For You

Yes, the rat F%$# made this Ad

Republican political adman Fred Davis, the man who created Carly Fiorina's infamous "Demon Sheep" ad, is sad because he's caught flak for the fact that he's a contemptible human being:

He’s not a witch.

Nor, Fred Davis wants the world to know, is he a racist.

Humbled, humiliated, saddened and chagrined, the Republican ad maker recently sagged into a chair in a noisy Las Vegas restaurant and for more than an hour talked about May 17, a date that will forever be ringed in red as one of personal infamy.

That day the New York Times published on its front page details of a proposed Davis-run campaign against President Obama, focusing on the incendiary Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., the president’s former pastor, “in a big, attention-arresting way.”

The intent, a do-over of sorts, was to “inflame … questions" about Obama's character and competence. A 54-page outline, leaked to the newspaper by someone apprehensive of the plan, was very much like Davis himself: jokey, irreverent and a bit out there.

Obama was described, and demeaned, as a “metrosexual black Abraham Lincoln.” Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee for whom Davis worked, was derided as “a crusty old politician who often seemed confused” and failed to exploit the target-rich opportunity presented by the venomous Wright.

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Two of his commercials were among the most widely noticed of the 2010 campaign: the infamous "demon sheep" ad for California's Carly Fiorina and his meet-the-candidate spot for Delaware's Christine O'Donnell, with its indelible opening, "I’m not a witch." Both U.S. Senate hopefuls lost their elections, though Fiorina made it through a combative primary and, hey, Davis made you look, didn't he?

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But when it comes to the proposed super PAC campaign, Davis insisted, it was never his intention to use race as an incitement. "I am maybe the only person in America who didn't see that as racist," he said of juxtaposing the president with the fiery rants of his longtime pastor, who Obama disavowed in the heat of the 2008 primary. "I saw it as an interesting fact in a guy's upbringing and the way he's formed his opinions."

No, you're not a racist, and you're not an asshole, because your previous oeuvre has been so uniformly positive and nice.

Listen while I say this slowly: If you did not see that as racist, it is because you are not only racist, but because you are a stupid racist.

Your presentation was too racist for a Republican billionaire, OK?

You f%$# with the bull, you get the horns.

Perhaps you want some cheese with your whine?